Academic interests

Dimitra Christidou is particularly interested in the multimodality of the museum experience and understanding the relationships between visitors, the museum collection and their meaning making. Her areas of expertise are: embodiment, social interaction, visitor studies, museum learning, museum evaluation and audience research. Through her postdoctoral fellowship, Dimitra will experiment with and design new qualitative tools to better understand visitors' meaning making and the museum experience.

Prior to her fellowship at the Department of Education, Dimitra led two Nordic projects on museum volunteers and learning at the archives. She has successfully been granted 160 000 € for 3 projects (two funded by Nordplus Adult and one by Erasmus+K2).

Dimitra has working experience as museum educator in two museums in Greece, as museum evaluator at the Victoria & Albert museum and as primary school teacher.

Teaching

2017 - 2018 PED 4331

2018 2 lectures for PED 4331

September 2017. Museums, exhibitions and visitors. School of Social Sciences - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. The University of Iceland. SÖFN SEM NÁMSVETTVANGUR (SAF 016F, Haust 2017). 1hr teaching seminar.

September 2016. Museums and their social role. School of Social Sciences - Faculty of Social and Human Sciences. The University of Iceland. SÖFN SEM NÁMSVETTVANGUR (SAF 016F, Haust 2016). 1hr teaching seminar.

Christidou, Dimitra (2016). Does pointing in the museum make a point? A social semiotic approach to the museum experience, In Maria Papadopoulou & Eleftheria Deltsiou (ed.), Changing Worlds & Signs of the Time: Selected Proceedings from the 10th International Conference of the Hellenic Semiotics Society. The Hellenic Semiotics Society. ISBN 978-618-82184-0-6. 30. s 374 - 385

Christidou, Dimitra (2016). Social Interaction in the Art Museum: Connecting to Each Other and the Exhibits. The International Journal of Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts. ISSN 2327-2104. 11(4)

Christidou, Dimitra (2013). Bringing Meaning into Making: How Do Visitors Tag an Exhibit as Social when Visiting a Museum. The International Journal of the Inclusive Museum. ISSN 1835-2014.